- Install Google Gears to your local machine.
- Create a folder named {000a9d1c-beef-4f90-9363-039d445309b8} under the extensions folder where your instance of FireFox portable is installed (e.g. \FirefoxPortable\Data\profile\extensions or \FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\extensions\) (Reader Drakkim pointed out that: \FirefoxPortable\Data\profile\extensions should be used instead since the App path is deleted on upgrade see his comment below).
- Copy the contents of the Gears Firefox files (probably here: c:\program files\google\google gears\Firefox to the folder you created.
- Uninstall Google Gears from the local machine (Unless, of course, you want to have it installed on that system.
- Restart Firefox if it is running.
Note: If you go to this site it will tell you if Google Gears is installed or not.
Update: Welcome Lifehacker readers!!! I am really excited about being linked from Lifehacker since that is one of my favorite websites.
Update: I seemed to have overlooked a need in the first posting of this entry so in order to remedy that see the following:
To uninstall Google Gears go here.
To remove Portable Google Gears:
- You can exit FireFox and delete the folder {000a9d1c-beef-4f90-9363-039d445309b8} that is under the extensions folder where your instance of FireFox portable is installed (e.g. \FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\extensions\).
- You can go to the Addons dialog in FireFox (under the Tools menu) and click on Google Gears and choose Uninstall.
Update: Currently Google Gears does not work with FireFox 3.1b3 (or apparently with any of the 3.1 beta versions).
4 comments:
Instead of installing to "\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox\extensions\" you should install to "\FirefoxPortable\Data\profile\extensions"
Both work, but the App path is deleted on upgrade...
what if I don't have privileges to install?
Now available as an add-on via addons.mozilla.org:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13492/
Oh, and additional information on the addons.mozilla.org post:
http://portableapps.com/node/20230
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